Summary Information

During the year of 2018, there were 340 mass shootings occurred in the United States; There were 373 people died and 1347 people injured in mass shootings. Based on the total number of deaths and injuries, Pompano Beach (Parkland) was most impacted city by shootings, while the state of California had the largest total number of deaths and injuries among all the states. The worst two mass shootings happened on February 14, 2018 and June 10, 2018.

Summary Table

Here is a summary table of mass shootings information by state where 20 or more people either died or injured in mass shootings during 2018:

state deaths injured total
California 50 136 186
Florida 48 132 180
Illinois 21 150 171
Pennsylvania 35 63 98
Texas 29 62 91
Tennessee 19 68 87
Alabama 12 55 67
Louisiana 15 50 65
Missouri 12 52 64
Ohio 13 46 59
New Jersey 4 54 58
New York 5 53 58
North Carolina 14 37 51
Maryland 13 31 44
Michigan 10 28 38
Indiana 10 27 37
Colorado 9 27 36
Georgia 3 33 36
Kentucky 7 25 32
District of Columbia 2 23 25
Arkansas 7 17 24
South Carolina 5 19 24
Oklahoma 2 19 21

According to the data, there were 23 states where mass shootings caused 20 or more people either died or injured. The worst mass shootings happened in California with 50 people lost their lives and 136 got injured from the incidents. Two similar states in terms of mass shooting incidents are Florida and Illinois with 48 and 21 people either died or injured from shootings. Another two states with large casualties in mass shootings are Pennsylvania and Texas with 35 and 29 people died from mass shootings.

Description of A Particular Incident

The worst incident of the year happened on February 14, 2018 at 5901 Pine Island Rd in Pompano Beach (Parkland), Florida. The exact location of the incident is (26.3107774, -80.2532249). 17 people died from the incident, which is the highest among all the other incidents happened in the U.S. during 2018. 17 got injured from the incident, and there were 34 people either died or got injured from the incident. For more information about this incident please click this link.

Interactive Map

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Plot of My Choice

This graph shows the total casualties of mass shootings by state where 60 or more people either died or injured in mass shootings during 2018:

Point encoding was chosen because the number of casualties can be quickly identified in this encoding. This helped me to identify the state with the highest casualties in mass shootings.

As can be seen from the graph: